How many homes for sale in San Francisco? This week there are 213 single family homes, 354 resale condo properties, and 126 unit buildings for about 693 total resale residential properties for sale in San Francisco, not including the new construction inventory that isn’t MLS listed. San Francisco is a town that struggles with its progressive dreams and conservative foundations…

Here’s are some interesting numbers from this week’s episode:

According to 2014 planning department statistics, San Francisco has approximately 125,000 single family homes. Of those, as we’ve mentioned, 213 are for sale in the MLS. Which roughs out to about 16/100th’s of a percentage point of our entire single family housing stock is for sale.

Or, while there are 213 single family homes on the market in all of SF, there are 126 buildings with 2-4 legal units that are currently marketed for sale. It might be surprising to you that there are so many unit buildings available, but when we went back to look at the housing for the city, the percentages track with our housing stock. In SF, about 30% of all of our homes are single family properties, about 20% are 2-4 unit properties, and the remaining 50% are 5+ unit apartment or condo buildings. 213 is about 30% of 693, and 126 is about 20% of 693, so the mix of what’s for sale tracks with the mix of what is already built.

2675 Folsom (in the Mission but not 2675 Mission, as I say once in the video) is back in the news with activists protesting the creation of market rate housing, meaning that final approval of the 117 unit development rests with the full Board of Supervisors on May 9. Now that’s what we call a good use of our entire planning and zoning code: toss it all out for a heartfelt appeal to politicians elected by neighborhood residents with no vested interest in solving SF’s problems as a city.

How San Francisco should look is an argument (almost) as old as time. San Francisco is a town that struggles with its progressive dreams and conservative foundations. That’s what happens when a few shopkeepers put down roots and build a town to serve the gold-miners that used to show up looking for literal gold but now come west to mine stock options and the next killer app.

After 17 years of living here, I guess I’m not surprised by any of this. My experience of San Francisco is that we always know better than our neighbors how they should be using their property. San Francisco is a town of independent thinkers that love to tell other people what to do. That we are arguing about how San Francisco should look is to be expected.

Here are just two controversial residential buildings built in SF over the years:

999 Green, The Summit – an Eichler-designed tower that managed to pretty much single-handedly end vertical residential development in San Francisco for decades.

8 Octavia in Hayes Valley, a Stanley Saitowitz building developed on a narrow lot created by the removal of the central freeway arteries in Hayes Valley after the Loma Prieta earthquake. People either love it or hate it!

Curious about how the city planning department thinks San Francisco should look? You can peruse the (currently) draft “urban design guidelines” and supporting documentation from the SF city planning department.

We’d love to hear your thoughts about how San Francisco should look. Let us know on facebook, twitter, instagram, or right here in our comments.

This Week in San Francisco Real Estate: Expensive Homes, Cheap Money: SF interest rates. While Ryan enjoys a nice vacation, Matt and Omar discuss the market that they’ve been experiencing. An entry level condo gets 5 offers before it even has a public open house… and yet!

Are we wearing pants? One of us is… Was Matt’s first mortgage at an interest rate of 7.5%? Yes. Yes it was. Did Matt think this was a good deal? I sure did!

Homes are expensive, but money’s cheap. We take a long term look at SF interest rates. What are your thoughts about how interest rates will be impacted by our new administration?

Matt Fuller and Omar Maissen are two members of the JacksonFuller team and SF Modern Condos project here in San Francisco. Matt Fuller is a team co-founder, along with Britton Jackson, who isn’t featured in this video but has been a San Francisco Realtor since 2001. Our weekly video segment takes a quick and topical look at San Francisco real estate.

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